Study notes beyond the chapters
The rules and frameworks this paper quotes by number, each in a note of its own — written to the same standard as the chapters, most in English and Hindi, and every ★ volatile fact flagged for re-verification before the exam.
NIPUN Bharat Mission
The FLN mission — launch facts, the class-wise Lakshyas, the supporting programmes.
Education Committees & Commissions, 1983–2019
Chattopadhyay to Kasturirangan — objectives, report titles and recommendations, committee by committee.
NCF-FS 2022 — National Curriculum Framework for the Foundational Stage
The framework for ages 3–8, read from the document: the 13 Curricular Goals, three kinds of play, the home-language rule, Panchaadi and ELPS, no textbooks before 6, no tests, the A–E × I–IV progress card, and the minutes a day.
NCF-SE 2023 — National Curriculum Framework for School Education
The framework for ages 3–18, read from the document: the five aims, the Curricular Goals of every subject at every stage, the school day and the hours each subject gets, Grade 10 and 12 structure, board-exam reforms and the promotion rules.
CCS (LTC) Rules, 1988
Rule by rule: block years, fresh-recruit concessions, travel entitlement by pay level, and the claim deadlines that forfeit a claim.
CCS (Leave) Rules, 1972
Every kind of leave in one table — entitlement, accumulation, encashment and leave salary, with the rules most often misquoted.
Special Casual Leave (SCL)
Every purpose with its exact duration — organ donation, blood and apheresis, sports, service associations, disability, the family-planning table — and the 30-day ceiling and the combination rules.
General Financial Rules (GFR), 2017
Government financial rules end to end — budget, accounts, procurement thresholds and the accountability chain from DDO to CAG.
Physical Verification of Library Books — GFR Rule 215
Rule 215 of the GFR, 2017 — the 20,000 and 50,000-volume slabs, complete versus sample verification, the loss of five per thousand issued, the books that must always be investigated, and the procedure for a school library.
Current Affairs Compendium 2026
Eleven sections, polity to Delhi's Directorate of Education. ★ marks a high-probability row, ⚠ marks a fact no primary source confirmed, and Section J lists every one of them to check before the exam.
School Governance, Quality Frameworks & Schemes
SMC, PGI, NAS, Shaala Siddhi, SQAAF, DPEP, SSA and PM POSHAN — the eight governance and quality instruments, with the percentages, points and funding patterns the paper asks for.
POSH Act, 2013 & POCSO Act, 2012
The two laws a Vice Principal carries personal duty under: the ICC, the complaint timelines, and the POCSO reporting obligation whose breach is itself an offence.
School Safety — NDMA 2016 · NSSP · Supreme Court · NCPCR
The four 2022 Principal-paper questions came from here: NDMA's 2016 Guidelines table by table, the NSSP DM-plan template, the CBSE 2017 circular, Avinash Mehrotra's directions and the NCPCR 2021 manual — and where the sources disagree.
Digital Education & Digital Literacy Platforms
DIKSHA, SWAYAM, SWAYAM Prabha, NDEAR, PM eVIDYA, NISHTHA, UDISE+, PMGDISHA — every portal sorted into six buckets by who uses it, with the launch dates, full forms and counts the paper asks for.
CCS (Conduct) Rules · Flag Code · Income Tax · GST
Rule 3, the Rule 13 gift limits and Rule 18 property returns; the Flag Code's two amendments; the Income Tax Act, 2025 and its Tax Year; GST 2.0's rate structure — and the 2026 amendment that gives Vande Mataram the anthem's statutory protection.
CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965
Classification into four Groups, suspension and the 90-day review, the five minor and five major penalties, the Rule 14 inquiry, appeals and the sealed-cover procedure.
CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021
Qualifying service, emoluments, the classes of pension, voluntary retirement, the ₹25 lakh gratuity ceiling, family pension and the retirement process.
Transfer Grant · Joining Time · Daily Allowance · Service Book
CTG rates and the retirement change, joining-time days and the leave you get for unused days, DA rates on tour, and how long a Service Book is kept.
e-Office — The Digital Workplace of the Government
NIC's e-Office suite end to end — eFile, KMS, the eOffice Portal and SPARROW, with PIMS, how a file moves, the yellow and the green note, digital signatures, the rollout and the link to the CSMOP.
Official Languages — Constitution, OL Act 1963 & Rules 1976
Articles 343–351 and the Eighth Schedule, Section 3 of the Official Languages Act, 1963, the 1976 Rules with Regions A, B and C, the 1968 Resolution and the 2026-27 Annual Programme targets, the Delhi and Ladakh language laws, and the traps examiners set.
Fundamental Rules & Supplementary Rules (FR & SR)
The service-rule book, read from the DoPT text and the orders in force: FR 9 definitions, lien, pay fixation and the DNI option, increments, additional charge (FR 49), subsistence allowance and reinstatement, FR 56 retirement, foreign service, and the SR travel, transfer and service-book rules at today's rates.
Pay Fixation · Increment · Govt Accommodation · CGHS
The Pay Matrix and fixation on promotion with the option worked through, the two increment dates, licence fee and damages for government quarters, CGHS contributions, ward entitlement and referral rules, and DGEHS for Delhi Government staff.
Delhi School Education Act & Rules, 1973
The 8 chapters and 29 sections, recognition, teachers’ protections and the Delhi School Tribunal, admission and fees, taking over a school — and the 2025 Fee Act.
KVS · NVS · Sainik · PM SHRI · CM SHRI · EMRS
Six school systems compared: who runs each, how admission works, the numbers, and the PM SHRI Challenge Method versus Delhi’s CM SHRI.
UDISE+ · PARAKH · ULLAS
How UDISE+ grew, the UDISE code / PEN / APAAR, the 2024-25 headline data, PARAKH’s four mandates and the PRS 2024, and ULLAS with its fully literate States.
CBSE New Scheme of Studies — Classes 8, 9 and 10
What changes from 2026-27: the four compulsory areas of Class 9, the new subjects, Kaushal Bodh/Vikas and IT, the three-language rollout, two-level Maths and Science, CT/AI, the new internal assessment, and the timeline to the 2028 boards.
Delhi School Curriculum 2025 — Rashtraneeti · Science of Living · NEEEV
The March 2025 swap — Happiness, Business Blasters and Mission Buniyaad out; Rashtraneeti, Science of Living and NEEEV in — with launch dates, class ranges, the committee model, NEEEV funding and Delhi AI Grind.
Educational Bodies — Who Does What
Every council, commission, board and authority in Indian education in one table — full form, who created it, which ministry it sits under, what it does, and which of NEP 2020's proposed bodies actually exist.
Eco Clubs · SHVR · Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026
The Ministry of Education initiatives a school head is answerable for: Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE, the Swachh Evam Harit Vidyalaya Rating, and the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 that took effect on 1 April 2026.
Major Government Schemes — Explained
Twenty-plus flagship schemes taken one at a time — the problem each was built for, how it works, what it achieved, and the criticism an examiner expects you to know.
KGBV & Scholarships in School Education
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya in full, then the scholarships and fee concessions a school head administers — school by school, plus the national and Delhi schemes.
Statistical Tests & Research Approaches
Hypothesis testing from first principles, then z, t, F, ANCOVA, chi-square and the rank tests, with which test to use when; then the research half: paradigms, designs, Campbell & Stanley, qualitative approaches, action research, sampling and ethics. Quiz 16 tests it.
Measurement Numericals — Formulas, Worked Examples & Practice
Every computation of the measurement block, worked by hand: grouped mean, median, mode and quartiles; QD, mean deviation, SD, combined SD and CV; Pearson r and Spearman ρ; z, T, stanines and percentile ranks; Spearman–Brown, KR-20, KR-21, Rulon, Flanagan and SEM; p, D and the distractor table; correction for guessing and the CRT score; blueprint weightage; the SE of the mean and χ².
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